Faced with the ferocious gangsters, deputy captain Yuan Guangtao finally lowered his proud head and asked his subordinates to put down their guns.
"Sir!"
These staff officers and guards did not lower their heads in the face of the Japs. Although they were willing to bow to the bandits, one of the staff officers immediately became unwilling.
"boom!"
As soon as the staff officer finished speaking, the bandit leader flashed a fierce look in his eyes and immediately raised his hand and fired a bullet. The bullet punched a bloody hole in the staff officer's chest.
"Don't be shameless!" the bandit leader warned fiercely.
Seeing these bandits killing people despite their disagreement, Yuan Guangtao and the others put down all the weapons in their hands, even though they were extremely reluctant.
The bandit leader waved his hand, and the wolf-like bandits stepped forward and tied up deputy captain Yuan Guangtao and others.
When deputy captain Yuan Guangtao and others became prisoners of the bandits, the fighting in the village had already heated up.
Intelligence staff officer Du Jiang led more than ten security companies and fought hard against the bandits who besieged them. The village was filled with smoke and the smell of blood was strong.
Although the bandits shouted loudly, they were repulsed several times. Instead, corpses were left on the ground. The leader of the bandits, Lao Jiu, was furious.
However, as the fighting continues, the number of bandits increases, and the situation becomes increasingly unfavorable for Intelligence Staff Du Jiang and his colleagues.
"boom!"
A brother leaned on a farmyard and fired a shot at the bandit who was trying to get closer. A bloody arrow shot out of the bandit's body and he fell to the ground.
The brother simply pulled the bolt of the gun, and the smoking cartridge case immediately ejected. However, when he pulled the bolt of the gun again to load the bullet, the barrel of the gun made the sound of an empty chamber.
He hurriedly lowered his head to touch the bullets in the bullet box hanging on his waist, but found that they were all gone.
"Whoever still has bullets, please give me a few rounds."
This brother saw two more bandits coming around from behind the wall, and hurriedly shouted to the brother who was shooting at the bandits a few meters away.
"I do not have anymore."
"I don't have any bullets either!"
As soon as this brother finished speaking, the shooting brothers all retracted their bodies behind the bunker, their faces full of anxiety.
They carried a lot of bullets when they broke out from Huaiyin, but they spent a lot of money fighting a group of Japanese and puppet troops on the way. Now after such a fight, they immediately ran out of ammunition.
"Who still has bullets?!"
The intelligence staff member pulled the trigger of the shell gun, knocked down several bandits who tried to rush into the yard, and hurriedly asked everyone.
At this moment, the wounded and brothers who were trapped in the yard shook their heads one after another, indicating that they had run out of bullets.
"Commander Du, what should we do?"
Listening to the shouting bandits outside, these brothers who had run out of ammunition and food all had pale faces, and they all turned their attention to the highest officer here, Staff Officer Du.
Intelligence staff officer Du Jiang saw that the people had evacuated safely. Deputy captain Yuan Guangtao said that he had lured the bandits away, but they were nowhere to be seen. He knew that the bandits would definitely not come back to rescue them.
"Brothers, fight the bandits!"
Looking at the disgraced brothers, intelligence staff officer Du Jiang gritted his teeth and showed a ruthless expression.
They were the guerrillas of Northern Jiangsu who fought against the Japanese. They never gave in when facing the Japanese, and now they will not bow their heads when faced with these bandits.
"Fight!"
These brothers also knew that they were in a desperate situation and were determined to die. They pulled out the bayonets from their scabbards and fixed them on the bayonet seats with a click.
The man who used the shell gun threw away the shell gun without bullets, picked up the rifle and bayonet of the fallen brother, and then stuck it against the wall, waiting for the bandits to come in.
The bandits struck loudly, causing smoke and dust to fly from the wall of the courtyard where Du Jiang, the intelligence staff officer, and the others were last guarding, but found that they did not fight back.
"Master Jiu, something is wrong. Why didn't they shoot?"
Some bandits noticed that there were no bullets and came over to greet him. They hurriedly shouted to Lao Jiu who was hiding behind the stone mill.
The bandit leader Lao Jiu then poked out half of his head and took a few glances at the yard where intelligence staff officer Du Jiang and the others were trapped, and immediately became excited.
"Brothers, those soldiers are out of bullets, rush in and catch the ones alive! If you catch one, you'll be rewarded with a reward of NT$50!"
Hearing the shouts of the bandit leader Lao Jiu, saying that a brave man would be rewarded heavily, the beaten-up bandits became excited and swarmed forward, howling.
Although the two bandits running at the front wanted to get the bounty, they were not fools. Before rushing into the yard, they threw two grenades in to test it.
"Boom - boom!"
The grenades exploded in the yard one after another, sending shrapnel flying across the air. The yard was suddenly filled with smoke, but there was no bullet in return.
The two bandits looked at each other, fired their guns, and rushed into the smoke-filled yard, hoping to get the first shot.
"Huh! Huh!"
Seeing the two figures rushing into the yard, the brother who was lying in ambush against the wall stabbed directly, and the two bayonets were respectively sent into the body of the bandit.
The bandit just felt a sudden coldness under his ribs, and immediately a wave of heat surged out, and then he was knocked to the ground by the butt of his gun.
The bandits behind shouted and rushed in. The yard was filled with gunpowder smoke, and they didn't see the situation clearly. They just saw how the two people in front suddenly fell down.
Before the bandits behind could react, Du Jiang, the intelligence staff officer with bayonets in hand, and the others had already burst out.
Although there were many of these bandits, they did not have bayonets attached. Faced with the sudden flash of bayonets, several of them were unable to dodge and were stabbed to the ground, wailing.
The brothers of these guard companies were also trained in stabbing. They formed an assault formation in groups of three, and actually stabbed the bandits back again and again.
The bandits wanted to retreat and distance themselves and shoot, but intelligence staff officer Du Jiang and others gave the bandits a chance to distance themselves, and they stabbed and killed them closely.
The bayonet stabbed, the gun butt was swung, and the bandits who rushed over were instantly killed. More than a dozen of them were stabbed over immediately, and they screamed in agony.
"Stand out!"
Intelligence consultant Du Jiang, who originally wanted to fight for his life, saw that the bandits were so weak in melee combat, and immediately ordered a breakout.
These brothers were able to compete with the Japs on the battlefield in hand-to-hand combat, but now the bandits are their rivals.
Facing these officers and soldiers with fierce looks on their faces and fierce attacks, the bandits without bayonets actually felt guilty. They were so frightened that they turned around to avoid these murderous bayonets, causing chaos for a while.
Taking advantage of the chaos of the bandits, these brothers, who became more and more brave in killing each other, took the opportunity to break out of the village.
"Damn it, you're all a bunch of losers, you're all just doing the job, there are only a few of them, give it to me!"
Seeing that the cooked duck was about to fly, the bandit leader Jiu Ye was so angry that he cursed loudly. Only then did the confused bandits wake up from a dream. There were so many of them and they were afraid of a bird.
The frightened bandits turned around one after another and surrounded the intelligence staff officer Du Jiang and the others again. Although they did not have bayonets, they were still outnumbered.
"Commander Du, leave quickly!"
Seeing the bandits surrounding them again, a brother yelled at intelligence officer Du Jiang and the others, picked up a grenade on the ground, and turned around to pounce on the bandits.
"Boom!"
With a deafening muffled sound, the bandits who rushed up and the brother were blown to pieces with their flesh and blood flying, and the bandits' siege came to a halt.